Electro-automatic advertising-machine.



PATENTED JUNE 9, 1908. G. MYERS & A H. BURGHARD. ELEOTRO AUTOMATICADVERTISING MACHINE.

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UNITED STATES PATENT @FFICE.

CLARENCE MYERS AND ALONZO HI BURCHARD, OF HOUSTON, TEXAS, ASSIGNORS TOBRUCE DETRIOH, OF KANSAS CITY, KANSAS.

ELECTED-AUTOMATIC ADVERTISING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 9, 1908.

Application filed April 6, 1907. Serial No. 366,831.

I To all whom it may concern:

'Be it known thatrwe, CLARENCE MYERS and ALONZU II. Buncnano, citizensof the United States, residing at Houston, in the county of Harris andState of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inElectro-Autoinatic Advertising-Machines, of which the following is aspecification] This invention relates to display or exhibitingapparatus, and has special reference to an improved machine of thischaracter which maybe characterized as an electro-automaticadvertisingmachine.

To this end the invention contemplates an attractive and usefuladvertising machine embodying means for exhibiting a succession ofadvertising devices or cards in such a way as to command attention. Inthis connection the invention has also in view a construc tion whichpermits a pair of display or advertising cards to be exhibited at thesame time in such a manner as to insure the best results from anadvertising standpoint,

With these andmany other objects in view which will more readily appearas the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consistsin the novel construction, com bination and arrangement of partshereinafter more fully described, illustrated and claimed. 1

The essential features of the invention are necessarily susceptible to awide range of structural modification, but a preferred embodiment of theinvention is shown in the accompanying drawings in which- Figure 1 is aperspective view of an advertising machine embodying the. improvementsclaimed herein. Fig. 2 is an enlarged central vertical sectional view ofthe machine. Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse sectional view on the line33 of Fig. 2.

Like references designate corresponding parts in the several figures ofthe drawings.

The working parts of the machine are completely housed in a cabinet 1 ofornamental design and essentially consisting of an upright rectangularcasing provided at the front side thereof with an opening which maybeproperly termed a front exhibiting opening 2 through, which the displayor advertising cards are exposed toview. The front part of the cabinetis projectedbeyond the exhibiting opening 2,so that in front of thelatter there maybe arranged a side and front advance of the frontopening 2 and at what more fully appear.

inclosed glass cover 3 which adds materially to the finish andappearance of the cabinet while at the same time protecting the interiorparts fromdust and weather conditions. In

may be termed the lower end of the glass cover 3, there is arranged abottom rest ledge 4 the function of which will presently appear, and atthe top edge of said opening 2 in a different vertical plane from theledge 4, there I r, 5 is provided a top rest shoulder 5 bearing acooperative relation to the ledge 4 for the simultaneous support of apair of the display or advertising cards 6, as will hereinafter Anotherfeature in the cabinet construction is the arrangement of an inclinedreflecting mirror 7 withiir the glass cover 3 above the plane of theopening .2, and inside of the cabinet proper above the plane of the saidopening 2 there is also.preferably arranged what may be'termed aninclined card guiding chute 8 which serves to hold the display cards inan upright position a'ndbring them. at the proper angle into their placeover the front exhibiting o iening 2.

The display cal-( 1s 6 constitute a part of an endless indicator carrierwhich essentially com prises a pair of opposite parallel endless chainsor equivalent bclts E), a succession of parallel transverse carryingrods 10 connecting the o posite chains and a continuous series of t mdisplay cards '6 pivotally hung at one edge from the rods 10. Theendless indicator carrier is arranged in an upright position within thecabinet, and the rods 10 thereof are permanently secured at their endsas at 11 to the opposite chains, while the cards or placards, arepivotally connected with the rods through the medium of the hanger clips12 or equivalent connections which permit the cards to be selfadjusting,that is, to tend to normally gravitate to a vertical position.

The endless chains 9 are arranged to pass over pairs of sprocket wheels13 mounted respectively on the upper and lower carrier shafts 14 and 15,and to provide means for rotating the indicator carrier, it ispreferalde to mount on the lower carrier shaft 15 a crown or equivalentgear wheel 16 meshing with a mutilated gear 17 constituting an elementof the driving gearing 18 which is drivenfrom an electric motor ll)mounted within the bottom of the cabinet and rcccivlio ing its supply ofcurrent from an external source of energy or from a battery or batterieswhich may be conveniently mounted in the cabinet. The effect of amutilated gear drive for the indicator carrier is to give the same anintermittent motion so that the display cards will remain in theirexposed positions sufficiently long to permit the observer to fully readthe same before the next set of cards is brought to view.

It will be observed from the construction described that one card isheld in an upright position against the shoulder while the nextsucceeding card which has dropped from said shoulder will rest on theledge 4, thus exposing two cards at a time. These two cards may containthereon related matter, that is one may have pictorial. features thereonwhile the other has printed matter,

r. and to add to the attractiveness of the ex hibit, the matter on thelower exposed card will be reflected in the mirror 7.

Guiding wheels on an idler shaft 21 arranged in rear of the frontexhibitim -open ing 2 serve to hold the front run of the endjectedbeyond and surrounding the front and sides of said 0 ening, an inclinedmirror located within t e upper 'part of said cover above said opening,and an endless indicator.

carrier having a successive series of selfadjusting display cards.cooperatin said top and bottom rests, and one of which cards is adaptedto be reflected in said mirror.

2. In a machine of the class described, a cabinet having a frontopening, a glass cover arranged in front of said front Opening,- amirror located behind the glass cover and above the front opening, acarrier having display cards, and means for exhibiting'one dis lay carddirectly through the glass cover, anc at the same time exhibiting asecond card in the mirror and from thence through the lass cover. I

3. n a machine of the class described, a cabinet having a front opening,a glass cover arranged in front of said front opening, a

mirror located behind the glass cover and above the-front opening, acarrier havin display cards, stops for retaining two-of sai cards in aposition whereby one of them will beexhibited directly through the glasscover and the other will be exhibited by reflection in the mirror, andmeans for intermittently operating said carrier.

In testimony whereof we hereunto affix our signatures in. the presenceof two witnesses.

CLARENCE MYERS. ALONZO H. BURCHARD. Witnesses:

EARL V. HEADY. J. M. STmoKLnn.

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